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Unit3 Environmental Protection
Reading for writing
Write a report on an environmental issue
东方市八所中学 钟艳艳
What do you see in the video? How do you feel?
Activity1 Pre-reading Activate and share
What do you think might have caused water pollution in the LI River?
Make a prediction about the gist by observing word cloud.
Activity2 While-reading
skim for text type and main idea
A report
Topic sentence:
The first or last sentence of each paragraph
Transitional words:
tbut, however ...
The water pollution and measures taken to deal with it
Read the report and then summarize the key information with one word .
Problems
(negative effects on the river’s water quality)
Causes
Solutions
Problem-solution pattern
Result and prospection
Read the text again and complete the paragraph summaries.
Paragraph 1 Introducing the topic
Paragraph 2 Describing the ____________________
Paragraph 3 Presenting some ___________________
Paragraph 4 Presenting further ____________________
problem
solutions
solutions
Draw a mind map of Para. 2 and Para. 3 with
deskmate.
Draw a mind map to show all the factors that caused the pollution.
Li River Pollution
Increasing number of tourists
Tourists throwing rubbish in water
Tour boats throwing cooking oil in water
Rise in number of commercial and industrial enterprises = more waste
More chemicals for crop production going into water
Local population rise to meet tourism demand
= more household waste
Sample
Read for language features
Cause and effect
Problem and solution
Scan for useful phrases and recite them.
Pre-writing
While-writing
Use what you have learnt to write a report on an environmental issue.
Choose an environmental problem that directly affects you or your local community. Research the issue on the Internet. Consider the following questions:
What is the issue? Why does it need to be dealt with?
Where does the issue occur? What are its causes? What effects does it have?
What actions have been taken so far? What fut